‘Re: Uniting’ Receives 12 LEO Awards Nominations

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Still from ‘Re: Uniting’ Courtesy of @sydwonphotography.

There are a great many ways that we the public and the motion picture industry measure success for a motion picture. Obviously, the easiest one is the box office haul, because making millions upon millions, or billions upon billions of dollars, speaks volume to the demand of the movie and how badly people wanted to see it. But that really isn’t the only way to do it. Because some films, don’t get 2500 screens and a massive run in theaters, they’re independent or they’re on a streaming service, so to try and measure their success through that is silly.
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Which is why one can gauge success of a feature through the reviews it secures. Since those give folks an understanding of the emotional impact a particular film produces from an audience and we can also measure success, via the awards and accolades it receives as it cycles through the festival circuit, and awards season. For that too, helps people understand the prestigious nature of the story and how many appreciated what it had to offer and well, those particular lines of thinking are why it is safe to declare that the independent feature, Re: Uniting, is a grand success in every sense of the word. Because while this movie has not received 2500 screens to display on, it’s quite loved.

For the reviews coming in for the film are excellent to say the least, including this writer’s review, since it truly to did move me to tears on several occasions, and well… it is also being recognized in a big way from an awards standpoint. For recently, the LEO Awards released its nominations for its upcoming awards ceremony, and wouldn’t you know it, Re: Uniting received a nomination… or twelve. Yes, you read that right, it received twelve amazing nominations for the following categories:

Program
Direction
Screenwriting
Cinematography
Picture Editing
Sound
Production Design
Costume Design
Casting
Supporting Performance (2)
Lead Performance
 
Which is just… amazing news to say the least, and it speaks to all the hard work that Laura Adkin and her talented cast and crew put into making such an honest and earnest project. And we here at NTG wish them the best in locking up as many awards at the LEO Awards as possible, to further cement this film’s status as a rousing success. Something that will be bolstered further when the film hits United States theaters later this week.  

To learn more about ‘Re: Uniting’, check out our spoiler-free review, and interview with select members of the cast and Laura Adkin, the film’s writer and director, here and here.

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